From the Program Co-chairs Academic Exchange and Travel in an Era of Border Walls and Travel Bans As we gather for the 35th Congress of LASA in Lima, Peru, political developments in the United States (and elsewhere) remind us of the important role that academic organizations such as LASA must play in fostering the exchange of ideas across the hemisphere. Given that the majority of LASA’s members now reside in Latin America, it is necessary and fitting that LASA is holding its annual conference in a Latin American city this year. As my colleague and program cochair Mauricio Archila rightly observes, however, as academic tourists we are confronted with the question of what it means to participate in an academic conference at a time when the host country is confronting deadly natural disasters resulting from climate change. We are also mindful that for participants coming from the United States this is an uncertain time, especially for some of the most vulnerable members of the association, such as those who are undocumented or Latino immigrants who are afraid that their US citizenship will be called into question. What is LASA’s role in this context? The current moment in the United States is one that is profoundly troubling for Latin Americanists for a number of reasons. Rather than a resurgence in military interventionism toward the region (which has been one of the preeminent dangers of US foreign policy in times past), we are witnessing a desire to build border walls that will insulate the United States from the so-called threat of Latin American immigration. This xenophobic desire to build walls between the United States and Latin America goes against the grain of everything that LASA stands for. Latin Americanists from the United States who have dedicated their lives to studying the region, living and doing research there, and collaborating with colleagues in Latin America represent an important counterpoint to the inward-looking politics that is resurgent today in some sectors of the US population. Equally troubling is the open hostility and harassment that many Latinos are experiencing in the United States, whether they are US citizens or not. To pick one recent story among many, nine- and ten-year-old elementary school students in Indiana were met with calls of “go back to Mexico” after winning a robotics competition (the team was composed of Latino and African-American students).1 These stories of course pale in comparison to those of families that are being torn apart by the deportation of undocumented members, ICE raids in immigrant communities, and harassment by

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Border Patrol agents feeling emboldened by the adoption of travel bans on other populations seen as threats, such as Muslims. Not only are LASA’s Latino members directly affected by these developments, so too is its shared intellectual enterprise. Because the association conceives Latin American studies hemispherically, scholarship on Latinos in the United States is a vibrant and integral part of every LASA Congress, a fact reflected in the organized section on Latino Studies that has existed since 1997. Recognizing these challenges, and the understandable caution that many US-based members of LASA might feel at the prospect of trying to reenter the country at this time, LASA has extended the opportunity to participate via Skype for those who wish to participate in the Congress but feel unable to travel to Lima. This is an imperfect fix to a much broader problem, but it reflects LASA’s commitment to and recognition of the centrality of US Latino communities to the scholarly work of its members and to the association’s mission of fostering the exchange of ideas and knowledge between the United States and Latin America. We hope that you will join us during the closing ceremony, which will feature immigration activist Cesar Vargas of the Dream Action Coalition, to further discuss what role Latin Americanists can play in defending the rights of Latino immigrants (and other vulnerable groups) in the United States. It is fitting, then, that we gather in Lima for LASA2017 under the banner of diálogos de saberes, as it exemplifies the role that LASA and its members can play in building dialogue, not border walls, between the United States and Latin America. During four days of rigorous academic exchange and debate, this LASA Congress can serve as a model of equitable transnational collaboration and mutual respect that we hope will transfer into other areas. Welcome/bienvenidos/bem-vindos/bienvenue! Juliet Hooker March 23, 2017

Highlights at Every LASA Congress MARYSA NAVARRO ARANGUREN Winner of the Kalman Silvert Award for 2017 Marysa Navarro Aranguren was born in Pamplona, Spain, in 1934, two years before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. Her life was profoundly affected by the war. She and her family were exiled to France, where they lived until 1948. Realizing by then that the Franco dictatorship was firmly in power and not likely to fall, her parents decided to move the family to Uruguay. Navarro Aranguren completed her undergraduate degree in 1955 at the Instituto José Batlle y Ordóñez, in Montevideo, Uruguay, and studied for two years at the Instituto de Profesores Artigas. In 1958 she entered the graduate program in history at Columbia University, receiving her MA degree in 1960 and her PhD in 1964. After teaching at Rutgers University, Yeshiva University, Kean College, and Long Island University, she accepted a position in the History Department at Dartmouth College in 1968. She immediately took a leading role in the discussions that led to the college’s decision (in 1970) to become coeducational (i.e., to start admitting women). During her 42-year career at Dartmouth, she served as Chair of the History Department, founded and chaired the Women’s Studies Program and the Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies Program, and served as Associate Dean of Faculty for the Social Sciences. In 1992 the college named her the Charles A. and Elfriede A. Collis Professor of History. At the time of her retirement, in 2010, she was awarded the Elizabeth Howland Hand–Otis Norton Pierce Award for outstanding undergraduate teaching. While teaching at Dartmouth, Navarro Aranguren also held visiting positions at the University of Barcelona; University of California, Santa Cruz; University College London, Universidad de la República (Montevideo); Universidad de Andalucía; Universidad del País Vasco; Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Xochimilco (Mexico); and Brandeis University. Her research has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Institute of International Education, the Organization of American States, the Social Science Research Council, the American Philosophical Society, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Harvard University. In 1978, she became an Honorary Member of Phi Beta Kappa (Dartmouth

College); in 1981, she was named Distinguished Woman Scholar by the University of New Hampshire; and in 2003, she was declared “Visitante Ilustre de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires” by the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Navarro Aranguren began her academic career in the field of political history, writing a dissertation and book on right-wing political movements in Argentina. Deeply affected by the feminist movements of the 1960s and 1970s, she soon joined the newly forming field of Latin American women’s studies, becoming, along with Silvert Award winners June Nash (2004) and Helen Safa (2007), part of that field’s founding generation. From the 1970s to the present, her professional mission has been twofold: to integrate scholarship on women and gender into mainstream disciplinary debates, and to promote cross-national and cross-cultural discussions and networks among scholars working on those issues. On both fronts she has had major impacts on American (in the hemispheric sense) scholarly life. Her widely read articles on Latin American feminism and her biography of Eva Perón, released in multiple editions in Argentina, the United States, and Europe, remain obligatory references in the scholarly literature to the present day. But her role in the promotion and development of women’s studies as a field go well beyond her own individual research. Through her 20-year service (1976–1996) on the Editorial Board of the pioneering feminist journal Signs, Navarro Aranguren helped introduce North American readers to scholarly debates in and on Latin America. She did the same through her participation in the

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Organization of American Historians “Restoring Women to History” project, in which she and Virginia Sánchez-Korrol surveyed the historical scholarship on women in Latin America. First made available to the public by OAH in 1988, the papers and other resources resulting from that project were eventually published in book form in 1999. She helped disseminate the history of Latin American feminism to nonacademic audiences through the path-breaking PBS Americas project, for which she served on the Advisory Board and contributed to the project volume. While introducing Latin American scholarship to North American readers, Navarro Aranguren felt that it was equally important that Latin American readers have access to debates going on in the United States and Europe. Together with Catharine Stimpson, founding editor of Signs, she coordinated the preparation of a four-volume anthology, Un nuevo saber: Los estudios de mujeres, that presented Spanish translations of major essays in American and European feminism and women’s studies. Published by the Fondo de Cultura Económica between 1998 and 2002, those volumes remain an important resource for students and activists seeking an introduction to the field of women’s studies. The Nuevo saber volumes were undertaken as part of Navarro Aranguren’s work as chair of the LASA/Ford Foundation Committee on Women’s Studies in the Americas. Her chairmanship of that committee (1989–2003) was just one aspect of her deep and sustained involvement with scholarly organizations that promote Latin American studies, and above all with LASA. That involvement began with her joining the LASA Task Force on Women in 1976, co-chairing the group from 1983 to 1988, and serving as president of the New England Council for Latin American Studies (1981– 1982). During the 1980s and 1990s she served on numerous LASA committees, including the Committee on Constitutional Revisions (1985–1986), the LASA Commission on Compliance with the Central American Peace Accords (1988), the Bryce Wood Award Committee (1991–1994), the Executive Council (1992–1995), the Development Committee (1995–), and the Program Committee (1999–2000). As one of the most visible and dedicated members of LASA, she was elected vice president of the Association in 2001 and served as president in 2003–2004. During her term as president she devoted herself in particular to broadening LASA’s circle of

institutional funders, obtaining support from the InterAmerican Foundation, the Tinker Foundation, and the Open Society Foundation. Since concluding her term as president, Navarro Aranguren has maintained a high level of commitment to the organization. She chaired the search for LASA’s executive director, oversaw the Latin American Research Review’s move from the University of Texas to its current home at LASA headquarters in Pittsburgh, and served on the LASA Fact-Finding Delegation to Oaxaca in 2007. In addition to her service to LASA, Navarro Aranguren has served on or chaired academic, philanthropic, and feminist boards, including the Advisory Board of the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame; the Global Fund for Women; the Ms. Foundation for Women, Ms Magazine; the editorial boards of Revista de Estudios de la Mujer (Mexico), Revista Estudos Feministas (Brazil), Debate Feminista (Mexico), Política y Cultura (Mexico), and Cadernos Pagu (Brazil); Catholics for Choice; the Advisory Council of the International Women’s Rights Project of Human Rights Watch; and the International Planned Parenthood Federation, Western Hemisphere Region. In 1980, she was invited to join NEASC (the New England Association of Schools and Colleges) as a member of the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education. She served two terms (1980–1987) and participated in the institutional evaluation of Wellesley College, Harvard University, Boston University, Bates College, Bentley College, and the College of the Holy Cross. Since her retirement, Navarro Aranguren has been a resident scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University. Her current research examines the founding and early history of the Inter-American Commission of Women, a unit of the Organization of American States that was established in 1928. She is also writing a book on the civil war in Navarra and her family exile.

The Guillermo O’Donnell Democracy Award and Lectureship was established in 2017 to honor the distinguished career and pioneering intellectual leadership of the late Guillermo O’Donnell. This award recognizes outstanding scholarship in democracy studies or a meritorious public service promoting democracy. The 2017 lecture will be given by Dr. Sergio Bitar. Sergio Bitar has merged an excellence in intellectual work with a long, successful pro-democracy political career in Chile, which included serving as Senator, Minister of Mines, Minister of Education, and Minister of Public Works under various presidencies. He contributed significantly in discussions about the assessment of the Allende period and was then imprisoned and exiled under Pinochet; post-Pinochet, he proceeded to become a key participant in the redemocratization of Chile. He formed the Party for Democracy and played a major role in the Concertación. He has published several books and many articles on Chilean politics, economy, and society in order to advance his vision of a successful democratic Chile, including Democratic Transitions: Conversations with World Leaders, coauthored with Abraham F. Lowenthal.

The Martin Diskin Memorial Lecture is given at each LASA International Congress by an outstanding individual who embodies Professor Martin Diskin’s commitment to the combination of activism and scholarship. The 2017 lecture will be given by Dr. Daniel Mato. Daniel Mato is a prolific writer and a wellknown activist whose publications and work have varied alongside his academic studies and research. His initial work centered around political economy and activism. After moving to Venezuela, he became a pioneer in recognizing the importance of knowledge producers outside of academia, actively demanding equal space and acknowledgment for these grassroots counterparts. His next stage in academics focused on globalization, cultural production, and social transformations, on which he has published various articles and lead several research groups. Dr. Mato currently continues to study the transnationality of higher education, and indigenous and Afro-descendant people in Latin America. He was a key player in achieving the UNESCO recognition for the Cátedra Indígena Intercultural. Dr. Mato’s scholarly production, intellectual leadership, and permanent work for the inclusion of popular knowledge producers have earned him this recognition.

This award is offered at each LASA International Congress to an outstanding junior scholar who exemplifies Professor Diskin’s commitment to the creative combination of activism and scholarship. This year the award will be presented to Christopher Eugene Courtheyn of the Universidad del Rosario, Colombia. Goya Wilson Vásquez, University of Bristol, and Adriana Paola Paredes Peñafiel, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, will both receive honorable mentions at the LASA Awards Ceremony.

The Charles A. Hale Fellowship for Mexican History is made possible through the generosity of the Hale family and LASA members. This award is offered at each LASA International Congress to a Mexican graduate student in the final phase of his or her doctoral research in Mexican history. The award is based on scholarly merit and on potential contribution to the advancement of humanist understanding between Mexico and its global neighbors. This year the award will be presented to Abigail Campos Mares of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Under the direction of Ana Laura Lusnich, Andrea Cuarterolo, and their team, the LASA2017 Film Festival will offer internationally acclaimed films. The Festival Theatre will host continuous viewings from Saturday, April 29, through Monday, May 1. Admission to all events is free for registered attendees.

The Book Exhibit will be located in the Esplanada del Aulario of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. The exhibit hours will be: Saturday, April 29, from 9:30 am to 6:00 pm; Sunday, April 30, from 9:30 am to 6:00 pm; and Monday, May 1, from 9:30 am to 4:00 pm. Admission to the Book Exhibit is free for registered attendees.

The LASA2017 Gran Baile will be held at the Westin Lima Hotel & Convention Center, Limatambo Ballroom. Admission to this event is free for registered attendees.

This event is meant to enable one-on-one conversations between graduate students and faculty, providing guidance around topics of interest such as finishing a dissertation; getting a job; revising a manuscript; where, when, and how to publish one’s work; life/work balance; and careers outside of the academy. Advance registration required.

Building a Career in Latin America and the US Friday, April 28, 2:00 pm – 3:45 pm Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Building N, N103

Organizer: Maria Helena T. Machado The “Building a Career in Latin America and the US” workshop is an activity of the newly created Student Section. Its goal is to assist graduate students to understand and evaluate their upcoming opportunities and challenges in a variety of national and regional university contexts. We expect that the workshop will open dialogue paths between professors and graduate students, therefore promoting a greater interaction and exchange of information concerning the institutional and political aspects of building a career in the university. In this first discussion, we will host professors from Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, and the US, as well as a student, who will talk about the difficulties and expectations of career planning. Participants: Marcus Vinicius R. da Rocha, Alberto Aziz (Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social), Laurie Frederik Meer (University of Maryland), Maria Clara Sampaio (Universidade de São Paulo), Cristián M. Opazo, Myriam Jimeno (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)

Organizers: Vladimir V. Rouvinski and Monica C. Dehart The Pacific Alliance, begun in 2011 as an initiative of Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru aimed primarily at expanding the trade relations of the four countries with Asia, is now considered one of the most promising regional integration projects in the Western Hemisphere. The scope and diversity of the Alliance’s current and anticipated future programs are quite remarkable: joint diplomatic missions, common stock exchange and legal frameworks, labor mobility, and integrated pension funds are just some of the highlights. At the same time, the initial goal of the Alliance’s founders–to further advance their economic and political ties with Asia–remains at the top of the agenda. This comes as no surprise, since for all four member states, the leading Asia-Pacific economies– namely China, Japan, and South Korea–are among the most important trade partners. The workshop, organized by the LASA Section for Asia and the Americas in collaboration with the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, will explore various dimensions of the Pacific Alliance and its strategies toward Asia by gathering key experts on the topic from Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, as well as from the United States and the Asia-Pacific. Participants: José Luis Parra A. (the Pacific Alliance Strategic Observatory, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile), Vladimir Rouvinski (the Pacific Alliance Studies Program, Icesi University), Ricardo Pino (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile), Gonzalo Paz (Georgetown University), Juan Pablo Prado (Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla), Camilo Pérez Restrepo (Center for AsiaPacific Studies, EAFIT University)

Organizer: Juliet Hooker Speakers: Juliet Hooker (University of Texas at Austin), Lewis Gordon (University of Connecticut), Nelson Maldonado-Torres (Rutgers University), Yuderkys Espinosa Miñoso (independent researcher), Shannon Speed (UCLA) The purpose of this presidential session is to consider the insights that have emerged from Latin American philosophy and the contributions of Latin American thinkers to contemporary debates. While many nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American thinkers worried about whether the region was merely copying or adopting philosophical ideas produced elsewhere, the end of the twentieth century saw the emergence of a decolonial perspective that challenged the continued Eurocentrism of much of the intellectual production in the region since independence and its reproduction of modernity/ coloniality. This panel brings together leading figures in contemporary Latin American philosophy to consider: What have been its principal contributions? What challenges or aporias remain? How is contemporary Latin American political thought in conversation with other cognate traditions such as Africana philosophy or feminism?

Speakers: Daniela Campello (Getúlio Vargas Foundation), Julio Cotler (Researcher, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos), Juan Pablo Luna (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile), Steve J. Stern (University of Wisconsin/ Madison), Gabriel A. Vommaro (UNGS/CONICET) During the early 2000s, scholars and journalists were heralding the rise of the left in the region as left-wing governments took power in the vast majority of Latin American countries. In the last year, however, the right has mounted a comeback, taking power in Argentina, Brazil, and Peru. Moreover, leftist governments in other countries, such as Chile, Ecuador, and Venezuela, have declined significantly in popularity, which bodes well for the right in those countries as well. What explains the return of the right? Are the recent struggles of leftist parties simply conjunctural or do they reflect more deep-seated weaknesses? And what are the policy consequences of the rise of the right? Have the new rightist governments departed dramatically from the policies pursued by left-leaning governments? The proposed panel will examine the causes and consequences of the return of the right from the perspective of different disciplines and countries.

Organizers: Jesus A. Cosamalón and Javier Puente Valdivia Speakers: Evaristo Quispe Ochatoma (Federación Agraria de Ayacucho, FADA), Guillermo Nolasco Ayasta (Comisión Nacional de Unificación de los Trabajadores Ambulantes del Perú, CUNOVAP), Milton Sánchez (Plataforma Interinstitucional de Celendín), Jorge A. Chávez (Movimiento Homosexual de Lima, MHOL), Javier Puente Valdivia (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) Neoliberal capitalism, the wider set of structural adjustments that struck Latin America in the latter part of the twentieth century, brought unprecedented challenges for civil society. Often blended with great degrees of political authoritarianism, neoliberal economic reforms included fiscal austerity, privatization, and a major contraction of state involvement in civil society affairs. In the Peruvian case, storming neoliberalism struck in three waves: first, along with a process of nominal redemocratization, overshadowed by political violence and the dawn of the internal armed conflict (1980-1990); second, as bureaucratic authoritarianism triggered a major institutional crisis in an increasingly dictatorial tone (1990-2000); third, as manifold expressions of collective and individual governance that eroded conventional citizenship and posed questions upon the future of political representation and popular demands. Beyond economics and the melting domains of the state, the major restructuring of capital also seemed to impose new disciplinary standards at the grassroots levels, engendering administrative mechanisms of coercion directed towards the creation of a marketbased societal organization. Greater exposure of vulnerable populations, deepening socioeconomic inequalities and the normalization of poverty face the most resilient governance of capital assembled in world history. This roundtable brings together a number of prominent Peruvian grassroots leaders and activists to discuss the larger impacts of neoliberalism upon the social tissue of urban and rural communities. In an age of limited capacity for popular resistance, mobilization, and the almost complete demise of local autonomies, grassroots leaders confront incommensurable challenges–the alliance of state violence and corporate interests, the increasing criminalization of informality, the legal obliteration of indigenousness and “ethnic minorities,” the heteronormative discipline of the individual, and the demise of local, nonindustrial producers, among others. In showcasing the extraordinary roles of these leaders, the roundtable will highlight the agency of grassroots movements and local leaders in resisting, adapting, and reshaping neoliberal societal governance. Usually limited to a role as the “subjects” of intellectual inquiry and academic examinations, this roundtable recasts grassroots leaders facing unprecedented challenges as “producers of knowledge.” Everyday strategies of endurance against the particularities of Peruvian neoliberal reforms experienced a pivotal systematization as civil society strived for guaranteeing a minimum of sustenance, securing survival of future generations, and retaining little autonomy. Also, manifold understandings of gender, race, and class shaped strategies, their systematization, and the making of grassroots knowledge. After decades of neoliberal reforms, and the seemingly unquestionable establishment of a disenfranchising economic model, civil society and grassroots organizations still thrive, producing and critical knowledge that demands platforms, audiences, and interlocutors.

A simple pedagogical protocol for students and academics to tackle challenging texts by using them as raw material for art-making workshop. Advance registration required.

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LASA2017 Travel Grantees* LASA gratefully acknowledges all who provided financial support for Latin American and Caribbean congress participants, students, and nontenured and international professors who will be presenting at the congress. INTER-AMERICAN FOUNDATION GRANTS

Julia Hernandez Gutierrez, Université Catholique de Louvain Joel S. Herrera, University of CaliforniaLos Angeles Maryhen G. Jimenez Morales, University of Oxford Quintijn B. Kat, Institute of the Americas, University College London

*Please note that these lists may have changed. Please contact the LASA Secretariat to obtain the final grantee names.

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The benefit concert will take place at the Gran Teatro Nacional and will feature a selection of Peruvian artists. The concert’s goal is to fund a series of short-term grants for graduate students and young faculty in Latin American universities. Tickets are available for purchase.

Leadership Circle The purpose of the LASA Leadership Circle is to strengthen the relationship between LASA and its donors, reaffirming the value of annual support at the leadership level. The LASA Leadership Circle fosters members who provide support to LASA, its Endowment Fund, and other initiatives. Donors who contribute $50 or more annually become members of the Leadership Circle. Matching gifts from companies and firms count toward membership. LASA gratefully acknowledges all members of the Leadership Circle. Thank you for your support! $5,000+

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Milagros Pereyra-Rojas

Fernando Henrique Cardoso

Edna Acosta-Belen

Aníbal S. Pérez-Liñán

Sarah Cline

Rolena Adorno

Timothy J. Power

John H. Coatsworth

Arturo Arias

Joanne Rappaport

Mauricio A. Font

Silvia M. Arrom

Reid Reading

Gabriela Ippolito-O’Donnell

Florence E. Babb

Kenneth M. Roberts

Ann C. Kelly

Cole Blasier

Marianne C. Schmink

Kevin J. Middlebrook

Elaine K. Carey

Lars Schoultz

Debra A. Castillo

Peter H. Smith

Ronald H. Chilcote

Daniela Spenser

Peter S. Cleaves

Lynn M. Stephen

$1,000 - $2,999

Michael E. Conroy

Joseph S. Tulchin

Alina C. Camacho-Gingerich

Jose Guillermo De Los Reyes

Francisco Valdes-Ugalde

Maxwell A. Cameron

Carmen Diana Deere

George R. Vickers

Erik K. Ching

Billie R. DeWalt

Kathy Waldron

Jorge Dominguez

Paul W. Drake

Peter M. Ward

Paul L. Doughty

Ricardo Ffrench-Davis

Philip J. Williams

Todd A. Eisenstadt

Jan L. Flora

Merilee S. Grindle

Cornelia B. Flora

Katherine Hite

Mneesha Gellman

Jane S. Jaquette

Dara E. Goldman

Ricardo Lagos

Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández

Abraham F. Lowenthal

Gretchen Helmke

Cynthia McClintock

Evelyne S. Huber

Christopher Mitchell

Gilbert M. Joseph

Taro Nagano

Leonard M. Kurz

John D. Stephens

William M. LeoGrande

Maria Hermínia Tavares de Almeida

Yolanda M. Martínez-San Miguel

Martin Weinstein

Carmelo Mesa-Lago

$3,000 - $4,999 Charles R. Hale

Enrique Mu David Scott Palmer Manuel Pastor Jr.

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LASA2017 Exhibitors The Book Exhibit will be located in the Esplanada del Aulario by the Camino Inca of the Pontificia Universidad Católica. The Exhibit hours will be: Saturday, April 29, from 9:30 am to 6:00 pm; Sunday, April 30, from 9:30 am to 6:00 pm, and Monday, May 1, from 9:30 am to 4:00 pm. Admission to the Book Exhibit is free for registered attendees.

LASA2017 Local Logistics Registration As in the past, all LASA Congress participants and attendees must be registered; no exceptions can be made. The deadline for congress participants to pre-register was March 14, 2017 (5:00 pm EDT). Registration and check-in areas will be located at the Pontificia Universidad Católica (PUCP). The main registration area will be near the Complejo de Innovación, for participants arriving via the LASA-provided shuttles, and a second registration area will be near the Puerta Principal, for all those arriving independently. Security at the PUCP is a priority and for this reason, all participants must have a photo ID and proof of congress registration in order to enter the campus. Participants are encouraged to check in for the congress starting on Friday, April 28, from 1:30 pm to 7:30 pm at the designated locations.

All attendees and participants entering the PUCP campus must have a photo ID and proof of congress registration. Individuals planning on attending Saturday morning sessions should consider checking in from 1:30 pm to 7:30 pm on Friday, April 28 if at all possible.

On-Site Registration On-site registration will be limited due to security reasons. Only individuals with evidence of academic affiliation and a photo ID will be allowed to register on-site, after having met the security criteria of the PUCP. Individuals registering onsite should proceed to the on-site registration area to pay the required fees and receive their materials. MasterCard, American Express, and Visa credit cards are the only acceptable forms of payment.

Sessions will be held at the Pontificia Universidad Católica. Congress papers received by the Secretariat by the April 7 deadline were posted to the LASA website before the start of the meeting. • Pre-conference Sessions will be held in Pabellón N • Sessions will be held in Pabellón A and Pabellón H

Check-In Registered US participants will receive their name badges and constancias via certified mail, and their program books (if preordered) at the PUCP registration areas. All other participants will receive their name badge, preordered program book, constancia, and other information at the time of check-in. Printed program books are only available if ordered and paid for at the time of registration. Otherwise, the program book will only be available online and in our exclusive application. Participants are urged to give themselves ample time to check in before their scheduled sessions. People who attend the Welcome Ceremony and Reception on Friday night will be required to wear their badges.

• The Book Exhibit and Book Presentations will be located in the Esplanada del Aulario (across from Pabellón A) • The Film Festival will be located at the Auditorio de la Facultad de Derecho • The Welcome Ceremony will be held at the Museo de Arte de Lima • The Gran Baile will be held at the Westin Lima Hotel & Convention Center •S ection and Non LASA receptions will be held at the Westin Lima Hotel & Convention Center • The Graduate Breakfast will take place at the Westin Lima Hotel & Convention Center

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north. At times it will only stop at certain platforms. Payment is made using an “e-card” which can be purchased or recharged at vending machines on the platforms.

Shuttle between Hotels and PUCP LASA will be providing a shuttle between the official LASA hotels and the PUCP. Only individuals with the LASA name badge will be permitted to board the buses. The times and routes will be made available closer to the congress. Please be prepared to have alternative transportation in case of exceptional needs.

Transportation from the Airport to Hotels Jorge Chávez International Airport is Peru’s main airport. It is located in the Constitutional Province of Callao. Road access to the airport is via Elmer Faucett Av. This is approximately 9 km from the PUCP, 21 km from the JW Marriott, 17 km from the Westin Lima Hotel and 12 km from the Sheraton Lima. Upon arriving to the airport, it is possible to rent a car or take a certified taxi.

Travel in and around Lima EasyTaxi, Satelital and Uber are all used in Peru, but depend on phone or data service. Taxis (at taxi stands) There are no metered taxis in Lima. Please negotiate fares before getting into a taxi. Registered taxis are identifiable by the license number painted on the side and an authorization sticker on the windshield. Buses Lima offers bus service through various routes. Fares are affordable and paid in cash. El Metro The city has a service of a rapid transit system called the Metropolitano. “El Metro” has a dedicated lane that runs from the south of the city, through the center then up

LASA will provide an LCD projector, a screen, and the proper connections for a laptop in each meeting room. Each panel will be responsible for bringing a laptop for their presentation. Separate audio and video equipment will not be provided. Any video presentations should be recorded on DVD or any other media so they may be viewed via the laptop. Presenters will be required to provide their own speakers if needed. AV staff will be available if participants experience any problems with the equipment.

Child Care LASA will subsidize the cost of child care for accepted participants who bring their children to Lima. LASA will provide reimbursements at the rate of US$10.00 per hour for one child and US$15.00 for two or more children, for a maximum of 10 hours. LASA’s maximum responsibility per family will be $100.00 for one child and $150.00 for two or more children. A parent who bills LASA for child care must be a 2017 member of the Association and a registered attendee of LASA2017. To receive reimbursement, the parent must submit the original bill from the caregiver, with the name(s) of the child(ren) and the dates of the service, to the LASA Secretariat on or before July 15, 2017. *The caregiver must be an official child care service. Family members will not be reimbursed for child care.

Constancias Constancias for LASA2017 will be provided either via certified mail or during check-in at the designated locations and the PUCP.

Luciano Tomassini Latin American International Book Award Committee Benedicte Bull, Chair, University of Oslo; Maria Hermínia Tavares de Almeida, CEBRAP, University of São Paulo; Par Engstrom, UCL Institute of the Americas; Bruce M. Bagley, University of Miami; Monica E. Hirst, Universidad Torcuato di Tella; Arturo C. Sotomayor, University of Texas at San Antonio; Lars Schoultz, University of North Carolina

Call for Papers Latin American Studies in a Globalized World Latin American studies today is experiencing a surprising dynamism. The expansion of this field defies the pessimistic projections of the 1990s about the fate of area studies in general and offers new opportunities for collaboration among scholars, practitioners, artists, and activists around the world. This can be seen in the expansion of LASA itself, which since the beginning of this century has grown from 5,000 members living primarily in the United States to nearly 12,000 members in 2016, 45 percent of whom reside outside of the United States (36 percent in Latin America and the Caribbean). And while the majority of us reside in the Americas, there are also an increasing number of Latin American studies associations and programs in Europe and Asia, most of which have their own publications and annual seminars and congresses. Several factors explain this dynamism. Perhaps the most important is the very maturity of our field. Various generations of Latin Americanists have produced an enormous, diverse, and sophisticated body of research, with a strong commitment to interdisciplinarity and to teaching about this important part of the world. Latin American studies has produced concepts and comparative knowledge that have helped people around the

world to understand processes and problematics that go well beyond this region. For example, Latin Americanists have been at the forefront of debates about the difficult relationship between democracy, development, and dependence on natural resource exports—challenges faced around the globe. Migration, immigration, and the displacement of people due to political violence, war, and economic need are also deeply rooted phenomena in our region, and pioneering work from Latin America can shed light on comparable experiences in other regions today. Needless to say, Latin American studies also has much to contribute to discussions about populism and authoritarianism in their various forms in Europe and even the United States today. With these contributions in mind, we propose that the overarching theme of the Barcelona LASA Congress be “Latin American Studies in a Globalized World”, and that we examine both how people in other regions study and perceive Latin America and how Latin American studies contributes to the understanding of comparable processes and issues around the globe.

Aldo I. Panfichi Huaman Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

Charles F. Walker University of California, Davis

Marianne Braig Lateinamerika Institut der FU Berlin

LASA PRESIDENT

P RO G R A M C O - C H A I R

P RO G R A M C O - C H A I R

THE DEADLINE TO SUBMIT PROPOSALS IS SEPTEMBER 7, 2017, 5 pm EDT

see next page for instructions.

You are invited to submit a paper or panel proposal addressing either the congress theme or any topic related to the program tracks. LASA also invites requests for travel grants from paper presenters who qualify. Visit the LASA website for eligibility criteria. All proposals for papers, panels, and travel grants must be submitted to the LASA Secretariat via the online proposal system by September 7, 2017, 5 pm EDT.

The deadline to submit proposals is September 7, 2017, 5 pm EDT.

PROGRAM TRACKS AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Select the most appropriate track for your proposal from the following list and enter it in the designated place in the submission system. It can only be submitted to one track. Names of Program Committee members are provided for information only. Direct your correspondence to the LASA Secretariat ONLY. Afro-Latin and Indigenous People Sofia Venturoli, Università di Torino Alejandra Navarro, Universidad de Buenos Aires

No submissions by regular mail will be accepted. A confirmation email will be immediately sent once the proposal is submitted successfully. Otherwise, contact the LASA Secretariat before the deadline for confirmation.

Acknowledgements LASA celebrates one more year as a professional association encouraging discussion, research, and teaching on Latin America and the Caribbean and its people throughout the Americas, by returning to Latin America for its 35th congress. Thank you to all our members for making LASA what it is today and for accompanying us throughout the years. This year, we are grateful for the partnership of many organizations, institutions, and individuals. Among them are the Tinker Foundation Incorporated, the Inter-American Foundation, the LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections, and the Ford Foundation. We thank them for their sponsorship and continuous support of scholars, along with that of our other contributors, especially those in our Leadership Circle. A special thank you has to be given to the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) for opening its doors and cooperating with us in the planning and organization of this congress. As in previous years, many participants and students living in Latin America and the Caribbean would not have been able to attend LASA without the financial support of the Tinker Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Inter-American Foundation, and the individuals who contributed to the LASA Travel Fund, the Student Fund, the Indigenous and Afro-descendant Travel Fund, and the LASA Endowment. Proceeds from the Endowment are used every year to support hundreds of Latin American scholars with travel grants. We also greatly appreciate Oxfam America’s generous contribution to the Martin Diskin Lectureship. Additionally, this year we are excited to celebrate our first Guillermo O’Donnell Democracy Award, which recognizes either outstanding scholarship in the field of democracy studies or particularly meritorious public service that promotes democracy and democratic values in Latin America and the Caribbean. This award is possible thanks to the generosity of many of our members. Special thanks to Gabriela Ippolito-O’Donnell and Kevin Middlebrook for making this award a reality. All the events occurring at the year’s congress would not have been made possible without the commitment, work, and support of our LASA president, Joanne Rappaport, along with the program cochairs, Juliet Hooker and Mauricio Archila, whose never-ending commitment helped make this a successful congress. We are also looking forward to another exciting Film Festival program in the hands of our newly appointed and gifted festival directors, Ana Laura Lusnich and Andrea Cuarterolo. Thank you for your hard work and that of your team. Finally, with the membership of LASA continually growing, we would not be able to do the work we do today without the tireless efforts of the LASA Secretariat staff. It takes a village to support our more than 12,000 members, and I cannot thank the staff enough: Pilar Rodríguez Blanco, Operations Director; Emily Boal, Congress Coordinator; Paloma Díaz-Lobos, Social Media Coordinator; Jocelyn Inlay, Executive Assistant; Ghisselle Blanco, Sections and Awards Coordinator; Mirna Kolbowski, Financial Administrator; Sara Lickey, Publications Specialist; John Meyers, Data Analyst. Thank you! I would also especially like to thank the congress staff who accompany us every year and support our members to make their experience enjoyable. We hope this congress is a memorable one! Milagros Pereyra-Rojas Executive Director, Latin American Studies Association